Gmail Hosting: 4 Months In..
We talked almost four months ago about our endeavor to use Gmail Hosting as our primary email conduit; we also promised updates.
Guess what? It’s good to go.
It’s probably self-explanatory, given that we continue to use it (four months later), but Google has done an excellent job of making Gmail Hosting feel and behave exactly the way your Gmail account does.
If you’re not familiar with Gmail, you’re not going to grow familiar with it in this post. But if you love Gmail, hopefully this will convince you to give their hosting option a run (at least, if you own a domain).
It would be interesting to see how many people are using Gmail Hosting as a way to have over 50 gigs of email storage. After all, you could, theoretically, create 25 unique email addresses - each with nearly 3 GBs of storage - and just keep forwarding messages as they fill up.
Or, how are people using this to manage things like Getting Things Done? It may not be an implementation that works, because of the login/logout issues, but it’s certainly a possibility.
Overall, this has been a seamless integration for all of our email. Go check it out.
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October 17th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Yes, my wife was one of the first non-Google to have gmail when it was first brought out. We both have a friend that is an attorney for Google. The email and for that matter, all of Google is first rate. These people seem to REALLY have their business and their mission dialed in.
October 17th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Excuse me. The type was impossible to read and check.
That is, she was one of the first non-Google employees to have Gmail. As a matter of fact, initially, she and Dr. Dru and Will Wheaton collected gmail. accounts and sent them to the troops in Iraq for their use.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
That’s awesome stuff.
The truth is, I couldn’t possibly be more pleased with Gmail as a whole. It’s refreshing to see a free service that does what the average email user wants.
That being said, why do you think it is that more email services/programs haven’t caught on to the whole idea of Labels? When I was experimenting with different solutions, I found myself desperate for labels.